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Cooking Stove.

No. 80,240: Patented July 21, 1868.

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Letters Putat ve, 80,240, dated' July 21, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN GOOKIIlG-STOVES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that LEVAN O. THoMas', of Jersey City, in the county ofHudson, and State of New Jersey, have invented'a new and improvedCooking-Stove; and I'do hereby declare that the following is. afull,'clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable othersskilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being bad to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Figure 1 represents a vertical longitudinal section of my improvedstove, taken on the plane of the line z :z, fig. 2. i

Figure 2 is a horizontal section of the same, taken on the plane of theline yy, fig. '1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. t

This invention relates to a new cooking and baking-stove, which isprovided in the oven with a suspended shelf, that can be rotated fromthe outside without requiring the oven to be opened.

The stove is of oval shape, with a cylindrical or nearly cylindricalbaking-oven, which is on one end of thestove, so thatthe'crescent-shaped fireplace fits nearly around half the oven.

The oven is provided with a false bottom and false cover, to allow theheated gases from the fireplace to be above and below it, and to therebyimpart considerable heat to the oven.

A, in the drawing, represents a cooking-stove of oval shape. Within itis arranged a vertical partition, a, which is curved, as shown, so as todivide the interior of the stove into the compartments B and C, of whichthe former is of nearly cylindrical, the latter of crescent-shape.

The cylindrical compartment B is the baking-oven, and thecrehcent-shaped compartment 0 the fireplace of the stove.

The bottom plate I) of the oven iselevated above the bottom, 0, of thestove, a space, d, being thus formed under the, ovenfor the hot air fromthe fireplace to circulate in.

There is also a similar space, 0, formed above the oven, as thecovering-plate f of the oven is below the cover 9 of the stove. I V eThe hot air in the space 0 s crvcsto heat the plate g of the stove, andthe articles held thereon, while it also keeps the top plate of, theoven heated.

Owing to the curved shape of the plate a, the fireplace fits nearlyaround half the oven, thus heating it most effectually. v

D represents a shelf, suspended from' an arbor, h,-that extends upwardthrough the top plate ofthe stove. A bail, 1.,is attached to the shelfand the arbor, by which the shelf is to be turned.

The articles to be baked are placed upon the shelf, and can thus berevblved and turned without requiring the oven to be opened.

The shelf can be'supported instead of being suspenddyand may then beprovided with an equivalent device to allow its being turned fromthe'outside.

That part of this invention which relates to the arrangement of theshelf D may also be applied to other kinds'of stoves.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- V Thearrangement within the stove of the ,curved portion a, bottom plate 6,and top plate f, whereby a crescent-shaped fire-box, O, is formed uponone side the oven B, a combustion-chamber, e, above it, and a hotairchamber, at, beneath it, as herein described for the purpose specified:

' r O. THOMAS.

Witnesses:

WM. Ii. McNAmAnA, A EX. F. Rnsa'rs.

